Posts Tagged free will
Hi all! I am back in the safe harbor of Boston (:
Phew! Links for the week along with a new fishie
Christianity.com - The Calling of Christian Writers - Richard Doster asks what is different about the new breed of Christian writers, including Marilynne Robinson
Irreligious - Inception Breaks
07.25.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
This issue, we've been focused on the question: where is God when people are suffering and in pain? Harvard's very own Rev. Jonathan Page provides an interesting answer for a Christian: he argues that God is still totally loving but not truly all-powerful. At first, I was rather upset with him for t
04.27.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
“But that which God foreknows, it needs must be,
So says the best opinion of the clerks.
Witness some cleric perfect for his works,
That in the schools there’s a great altercation
In this regard, and much high disputation…
Whether the fact of God’s great foreknowing
Makes it right need
03.27.2010| Opinions, Volume 5, Issue 2 | Jordan Monge
This summer, I thought a lot about the problem of foreknowledge and free will. If God knows what we're going to do beforehand - as certainly seems to be the case - how can our actions truly be described as "free"?
There is far too much to say about this problem in one blog post, and it would be a
10.9.2009| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
Not so long ago I overheard the following exchange:
Woman: Isn't the dining hall's food terrible?
Man: Sometimes the dining hall has good food! They had grits yesterday.
Woman: I don't like grits – I hate the taste of gravy.
Man: What does grits have to do with gravy?
Woman: …
10.8.2009| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini